TY  - BOOK
AU  - GEORGIADOU,Aristoula
AU  - OIKONOMOPOULOU,Katerina
TI  - Space, time and language in Plutarch 
T2  - Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies, 
SN  - 9783110539479
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Berlin : 
PB  - De Gruyter,  
KW  - UDJG
KW  - DE-Filologie
N1  - Frontmatter; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: Reading Plutarch through space, time and language; 1. Moving through space and time in Plutarch; Space travel and time travel in Plutarch; Time and space in Plutarch’s Lives; 2. Time manipulation and narrative signification; Espace mémoriel et paysage monumental; Plutarch and tense: The present and the imperfect; Narrative time and space in Plutarch’s Life of Nicias; 3. Religious locales as places of reflection on language, discourse and time; Space, time, and language in On the Oracles of the Pythia: ‘3,000 years of history, never proved wrong’; Poetry, extravagance, and the invention of the ‘archaic’ in Plutarch’s On the Oracles of the Pythia; Delphi, place and time in Plutarch’s Lycurgus and Lysander; Space, Delphi and the construction of the Greek past in Plutarch’s Greek Questions; 4. Models of the past I: configurations of memory and history for Plutarch’s imperial readers; Greeks and the Roman past in the Second Sophistic: The case of Plutarch; Plutarch and the advent of Hellenism in Rome; Creating paradigms for the politikoi: Bridging the gap in political space and time with pre-imperial heroes; Greatness measured in time and space: The Agesilaus–Pompey; 5. Models of the past II: Plutarch and the classical era; Discussing the past: Moral virtue, truth, and benevolence in Plutarch’s On the Malice of Herodotus; Solon on the road; Modelli del passato in due conferenze di Plutarco: De gloria Atheniensium e De audiendo; Shifting boundaries: Philotimia in democratic Athens and in Plutarch’s Lives; 6. Philosophy and religion between past and present; Is dualism a Greek word? Plutarch’s dualism as a cultural and historical phenomenon; Egyptian knowledge at Plutarch’s table: Out of the question?; 7. Space, time and notions of community; Divisions in Greek culture: Cultural topoi in Plutarch’s biographical practice; The construction of a cosmopolitan space in Plutarch’s On Exile; Il significato del termine ξένος in Plutarco: lo straniero nella realtà dell’Impero cosmopolita; 8. Sympotic spaces: forging links between past and present; Past and present in Plutarch’s Table Talk; Sympotic space, hierarchy and Homeric quotation in Table Talk 1.2; Plutarque et la tradition rhétorique du banquet; Theseis rather than quaestiones convivales; 9. Space, place, landscape: symbolic and metaphorical aspects; Individuated gods and sacred space in Plutarch; Espacio monumental y autopsia en las Vidas Paralelas de Plutarco; Military space and paideia in the Lives of Pyrrhus and Marius; Astronomical and political space: The sun’s course and the statesman’s power in Plutarch and Dio; Bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of ancient and modern authors
; Index of passages
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